• Title
  [Captain Frederick John Butts and a fellow officer of the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, Hyde Park, Sydney], 1858 / Joseph Fowles
• Creator
  Joseph Fowles, 1810-1878
• Call number
  DG 251
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, North Wall, no. 269
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  447504
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 55 x 65 cm. inside frame 69.5 x 79.5 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Signed and dated "J Fowles Syd 1858" at lower right. The first part of the date is damaged
  Titled from The Picture Gallery exhibition guide, Feb 1999
  The 77th Regiment of Foot, nicknamed the `Pot Hooks', arrived in Sydney on 26 September 1857, and was the second British Regiment to be stationed at Victoria Barracks, Paddington. The 77th was detailed for duty in Hong Kong, but was diverted to Calcutta to serve in the Indian Mutiny of April 1858. It is not know if Captain Butts was related to Mr Stephen Butts, the rider on the white horse in Macquarie Street, in Joseph Fowles' companion equestrian portrait (DG 251) -- Reference: The Picture Gallery exhibition guide, State Library of NSW, Feb 1999
  Notes on the identity of Captain Butts are filed at PXn 803
  Conservation funded by the Library Council of NSW, 1992
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874535
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Colonel Butts -- in pencil on back of stretcher
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  army officers
  colonial art
  horses
  oil paintings
  parks
  
• Place
  Hyde Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (15 February - 15 November, 1999)
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2007 - December, 2007)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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